Етхереум је пао 5% због пада стопе

Ethereum (ETH) has slipped by 5% in the last 24 hours, and is currently trading at around $1,900, according to data from ЦоинМаркетЦап.

The latest price action comes just 48 hours after Ethereum, the industry’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, премашила 2,000 УСД први пут од маја.

ETH managed to stay close to that mark over the weekend, hitting $2,022 on Sunday, before today’s sharp price decline.

Despite a significant drop over the last 24 hours, Ethereum is still up over 7% in the past week, making it the best-performing coin of the week among the ten largest cryptocurrencies over that time span.

One month left to the Merge

Ethereum стекао вучу over the past few weeks in anticipation of the Стопити event that will see the network move from its current energy-intensive доказ-о-раду (ПоВ) механизам консензуса за доказ-о-акција (Пос).

Last week, the network’s third testnet, Goerli, successfully пребачен на ПоС, prompting a 14% surge in the token’s price. It also meant that the final dress rehearsal before the Ethereum’s network shift from PoW is now complete, and the Merge is entering the final stretch of preparatory work.

The upgrade, which is expected to go live in about a month’s time, will address the Ethereum network’s scalability issues, while also lowering the transaction costs.

Првобитно је било очекиван that the Merge event would take place around September 19, however, a new tentative date of септембар 15 was later revealed, with developers setting the terminal total difficulty (TDD)—the exact moment when the network will produce its first PoS block—last week.

“The terminal total difficulty has been set to 58750000000000000000000. This means the ethereum PoW network now has a (roughly) fixed number of hashes left to mine,” Ethereum-co-founder Vitalik Buterin твеетед прошлог петка.

Он је то додао бордел.втф, a website that was set to track the timeframe for the approaching Merge, predicts the transition will happen around September 15, although the exact date may vary as it depends on the network’s hashrate.

На другом месту на тржишту, Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap, достигла границу од 25,000 долара on Sunday—a level last seen in mid-June—however, it too has slipped over the past day, and is currently down 2.4%, trading at around $24,100 at the time of writing.